Re: ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

[Bruce <bdarcus.lists@gmail.com>]

Roger Mason <rmason <at> mun.ca> writes:

> 
> Chris,
> 
> Chris Lott <chris <at> chrislott.org> writes:
> 
> >
> > 3) PDF is my primary medium of exchange, though I would like to
> > efficiently exchange docs with colleagues, which might mean getting
> > them into something they can open with their beloved Microsoft Word...
> > is there an RTF output for ConTeXt? this isn't super-high on my list,
> > but it would be nice.
> 
> > 4) How about X/HTML? this is my lowest level need but, again, it would be 
nice.
> 
> One option would be to use markdown with pandoc.
> 
> http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
> 
>   I mostly write in
> ConTeXt, but if I know I must share with users of word processors then
> markdown + pandoc is a good option.

And to the OP's original point about academic writing, pandoc has built-in (if 
fairly new) citation processing. I would think it would work quite well for work 
in the humanities.

I would give pandoc a try and see if it fits your needs, and then use TeX in 
some form to get PDF output.

Bruce

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